The COVID-19 pandemic has put us through long and sometime repeating periods of isolation, not only of self, but with others. Some of these are/were voluntary, others are/were not.
With ease of long-distance travelling, it had become relatively “easy” to meet with people. But COVID had put a stop to most of that. And one realisation we got is that places have meanings, and different ones to each of us.
Not being at a certain place at a certain time can hurt us in some ways. For example, a birthday, the annual meeting with dinner, or the fund-raising events.
This also brings about pain, as discussed in the previous blog, recalling that some of the feeling of pain is how we perceive ourselves which is within the “worlds” (3-dimensional) that we are in. We felt a “torn apart” from a place, one that has meaning for us; when we cannot be at the place, we feel we have denied ourselves, and others involved, recognition of meanings attached to that place.
We feel a “torn apart” from a place, one that has speial meaning for us.
This is far more harshly felt when a person has passed away. If they stayed away from home (e.g. at hospital) for some considerable periods, we feel they ought to have had some “return to the home”, or at least “be” at the home, before they departed. In any case, we feel that of the many places we had memories about them, the fact they are no longer there tear our emotions apart. We feel “robbed” because we cannot “recall” them back to the place. And we feel we owe a great deal to them as we are unable to do that. We feel a sense of regret.
I do wonder whether it is easier to die or to stay alive – an impossible question with an impossible proposition since we are either one or the other, and once dead we can return to be “alive” in the sense of the word in our current 3D environments. The point though is that for the persons (slowly) recognising they are going to depart, how significant are the “earthly” “places” to them? And how meaningful are these places with respect to their family and loved ones, together (the about-to-depart and their loved ones), and apart (the about-to-depart and their loved ones as “third parties” to each other). The notion of “place” is a window into the potential vastness of the many worlds beyond, which presently we are not able to relate to or think constructively about.
A misstep of place – is one we experience: the departed has done, but we have not. The place is of such entangelement that we feel about, but which the departed no longer puts so much meaning to; perhaps because they are either in such a better place (worlds, beyond 3D) along with the absence of 3D and sinful restriction we are in, or just the sheer release from their earthly existence and body in itself puts our present existence into such minute significance as to render the latter as really of minute significant.
Viewing from the present to the world of the departed, we long that they could return to our world such that those meanings of places are restored and celebrated once more. Viewing from the world of the departed to the “present” (our worlds of the “earthly living”), there is probably not much to speak about. The misstep of place is ours.
